Skinner, Bruce James
Killed in Flying Accident 1943-06-22
Birth Date: 1921
Born:
Son of Robert Low Skinner and Mary Teresa Skinner, of Devonport, Auckland, New Zealand.
Home: Devonport, Auckland, New Zealand
Enlistment:
Enlistment Date: Unknown
Service
RNZAF
Unit
1 CNS- Central Navigation School
Base
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Rank
Sergeant
Position
Sergeant
Service Numbers
425199
First Burial
Ottawa Memorial, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
1 Central Navigation School, Rivers, Manitoba. Anson I aircraft 6888 was on a navigation training exercise when it crashed in Lake Manitoba nine miles west of Oak Point, Manitoba
Sergeant BJ Skinner (RNZAF) was missing, presumed killed. Sergeant Skinner has no known grave and is commemorated on the Ottawa Memorial
Please see Daubner, HA for complete casualty list and detail
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
www.findagrave.com
Library and Archives Canada Service Files (may not exist)This incident involved multiple aircraft:
- Anson Mk. I Serial: 6888
All the above aircraft in the above list are referenced in this report.
Anson 6888
Avro Anson
Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum
The Museum's Anson Mk. V was built by MacDonald Brothers in Winnipeg in 1944. It flew with No. 7 Photographic Wing and No. 414 Squadron in Ottawa on photo survey work until the late 1940s. In 1956, it was purchased by INCO and used for mineral surveying until 1980, when it was donated to the Museum. The exterior is painted in the yellow colour common to all BCATP trainers and is in its same wartime RCAF markings.
The Avro Anson was known by a number of nicknames including "Faithful Annie" or "Flying Greenhouse". It was the first aircraft to be flown by the Royal Canadian Air Force to have a retractable undercarriage, which was a comparative novelty in 1936. In 1940, a Canadian government owned company, Federal Aircraft Limited, was created in Montreal to manufacture the Anson for Canadian use. Nearly 3,000 Anson aircraft were produced and, in the early days of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP), the Anson was the standard trainer for many pilots, observers (navigators), wireless operators and bomb aimers. More than 20,000 aircrew received training on the Anson. In Canadian service, the aircraft was substantially re-designed with the substitution of North American engines and many other airframe and equipment changes.Harold Skaarup web pages
Harold A Skaarup Web Page 
Avro Anson History1 CNS (1 Central Navigation School)
RCAF.info - RCAF Station Rivers MB
Anson 6888
Anson Mk. I 6888
Ex RAF AW455. To No. 3 Training Command on 10 September 1941, for use by No. 8 Service Flying Training School at Moncton, NB. To Eastern Air Command on 6 January 1942, for use by No. 2 Air Navigation School at Pennfield Ridge, NB. To No. 2 Training Command on 27 May 1942, for use by No. 1 Air Navigation School at Rivers Camp, Manitoba. Crashed into Lake Manitoba in summer of 1943, totally destroyed. Allocated to No. 8 Repair Depot on 25 August 1943 for write off, noted as "no salvage obtainable".1941-08-09 Taken on Strength Ottawa Car & Aircraft 2019-08-20
1943-June-22 Accident: 1 Central Navigation School Loc: Oak Point Names: Bagster | Daubner | Skinner | Stewart
1943-09-07 Struck off Strength 2019-08-20